{"id":221,"date":"2013-02-16T01:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T01:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atumvirtwordpress.azurewebsites.net\/?p=221"},"modified":"2013-02-16T01:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T01:38:00","slug":"disable-ssl-encryption-to-increase-vmware-converter-standalone-5-0-5-0-1-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2013\/02\/disable-ssl-encryption-to-increase-vmware-converter-standalone-5-0-5-0-1-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Disable SSL Encryption to Increase VMware Converter Standalone 5.0 \/ 5.0.1 Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I had a maintenance window to clone 7 physical machines twice to create 2 “production mirror” test environments. \u00a0Despite a rocky start for other reasons, I kicked off the P2V before heading home. \u00a0After checking in after dinner time, I noticed there was no way I’d finish the conversion once before the window ended, let alone twice. \u00a0After some searching, I found a reference to disabling \u00a0SSL encryption in VMware Converter Standalone 5.0, documented in KB2020517<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had 7 simultaneous transfers from 1 gigabit connected physical machines. \u00a0My converter workstation is connected at 1 gigabit as well, and the host had no other VM’s running and had 4 1 gigabit network connections, but the transfer rate was only 500 KB\/s to about 2.5 MB\/s, according to converter. \u00a0After disabling SSL, I cancelled my jobs and each one went up to 10 MB\/s or more, bringing my combined total up to around 90 MB\/s.<\/p>\n

The VMware article is below.<\/p>\n

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Disabling SSL encryption on VMware Converter Standalone 5.0<\/h2>\n
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Purpose<\/h4>\n
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By default,\u00a0the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0 default the converter worker encrypts the data stream using SSL. Encrypting\u00a0the traffic increases security, but it can decrease performance.<\/span><\/div>\n
This article\u00a0provides steps to disable SSL encryption in VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Resolution<\/h4>\n

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To disable SSL encryption for the converter worker:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Locate the\u00a0<\/span>converter-worker.xml<\/span>file.<\/span>\u00a0By default, it is located at:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
      \n
    • Windows 7 and 2008 Server \u2013\u00a0C:ProgramDataVMwareVMware vCenter Converter Standalone<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
    • Windows Vista, XP and 2003 Server \u2013\u00a0<\/span>%ALLUSERSPROFILE%VMwareVMware vCenter Converter Standalone<\/span><\/li>\n
    • In older Windows versions \u2013\u00a0%ALLUSERSPROFILE%Application DataVMwareVMware vCenter Converter Standalone<\/span>
      <\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
    • Take a backup of the<\/span>converter-worker.xml<\/span><\/span>file.<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Open the file in a text editor and locate the tag pair<\/span><\/usessl><\/span>.\u00a0It\u00a0is located inside the<\/span><\/nfc><\/span>tag and has a value of<\/span>true<\/span>.<\/li>\n
    • Change the value to<\/span>false<\/span>.<\/li>\n
    • Save and close the file<\/span>.<\/li>\n
    • Restart the VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Worker service on the machine<\/span>.<\/li>\n

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